Description: The Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA) has long been
considered the premier journal of statistical science. Science Citation
Index reported JASA was the most highly cited journal in the mathematical
sciences in 1991-2001, with 16,457 citations, more than 50% more than the
next most highly cited journals. Articles in JASA focus on statistical
applications, theory, and methods in economic, social, physical,
engineering, and health sciences and on new methods of statistical
education.

The "moving wall" represents the time period between the last issue
available in JSTOR and the most recently published issue of a journal.
Moving walls are generally represented in years. In rare instances, a
publisher has elected to have a "zero" moving wall, so their current
issues are available in JSTOR shortly after publication.
Note: In calculating the moving wall, the current year is not counted.
For example, if the current year is 2008 and a journal has a 5 year
moving wall, articles from the year 2002 are available.

Terms Related to the Moving Wall

Fixed walls: Journals with no new volumes being added to the archive.

Absorbed: Journals that are combined with another title.

Complete: Journals that are no longer published or that have been
combined with another title.

Abstract

This article reports results of a large-scale study of various sampling strategies. Conventional sampling strategies are compared with model-based strategies on data from over 12,000 businesses included in the annual Manufacturing Census of the Australian Bureau of Statistics. The study has been designed to replicate the quarterly Survey of Capital Expenditure. The results show that for the given data a stratified sample consisting of units with the largest values of the auxiliary variable in each stratum and simple ratio estimation is by far the most efficient of the strategies considered. A meaningful estimate of sampling error can be derived.